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The message that displays when trying to view the Futurology subreddit. Another term, basically, for brigading. A spokesperson emphasized to me that these comments did not represent changes to any Reddit policies, or to how those policies are enforced. Reddit has executed similar maneuvers in the past to make tricky moderation decisions.

Similarly, when Reddit removed major QAnon subreddits in , it was not explicitly on account of their wild conspiracy theories and fantasies of mass murder, or other problematic behaviors that upset other users. Social platforms find it useful to moderate content on the basis of those kinds of technicalities, Grimmelmann told me, because they can more easily defend any given enforcement decision as the simple application of a basic rule.

But this approach depends on waiting for bad actors to commit actionable offenses, even as they engage in other harmful behavior. Participants in the Reddit protest were hoping for something that requires a little less hairsplitting.

They want a clear commitment of some kind that the platform will protect its users from ideas that could kill them. This article is part of Quartz Ideas , our home for bold arguments and big thinkers.

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